2014 | 87 minutes

2014 | 86 minutes

It is our great pleasure to open our ShortsFest weekend with this collection of superb short films from around the world that exemplify the art of storytelling in all its variety. Comedy and drama, live action and animation-these films prove that short is truly sweet.

Taiwan | 2013 | 138 minutes | Tsai Ming-Liang

Tsai Ming-Liang (The Wayward Cloud, Vive L'Amour) spins a compassionate, elegant, minimalist and visually powerful yarn about a poverty-stricken alcoholic and his family living on the margins of Taipei society.

Taiwan | 2013 | 109 minutes | Chang Tso-Chi

A group of sassy, sweet kids both befriend and torment Bao as he spends the bucolic summer with his grandfather in the countryside outside Taipei, while his parents work out the terms of their divorce.

United Kingdom | 2014 | 107 minutes | Michael Winterbottom

The sequel to 2010’s largely improvised The Trip finds buddies Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on a driving tour through the Italian countryside, musing on life while indulging in scenic and gastronomic delights.

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